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THE CIVIL WAR AGAINST THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

To the credit of England, a wave of pity and sympathy for the cruelly persecuted Jews of the Russian and German Empires is sweeping over this Kingdom. We would rather this natural and generous feeling should find public expression under other auspices than those of the present Lord Mayor of London, for his Lordship has too plainly made himself the instrument of the Tory Party in regard to Ireland to make any proposition of his acceptable at first blush to Liberals. But, on the present occasion, Lord Mayor Ellis has good grounds for calling upon his fellow citizens to rally round him at the Mansion House, at three oclock on Wednesday afternoon next, Feb 1.

LORD MAYOR ELLIS OFFERS THE MANSION HOUSE FOR A CITY MEETING.

This was the influentially-signed Memorial that induced the Lord Mayor to announce the forthcoming meeting:─

REQUISITION. Jan. 21, 1882.

To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of the City of London.

My Lord, We, the undersigned, consider that there should be a public expression of opinion respecting the persecution which the Jews of Russia have recently and for some time past suffered. We, therefore, ask your Lordship to be so good as to call at your earliest convenience a public meeting for that purpose at the Mansion House, and that you will be good enough to take the chair on the occasion.─

We are, your Lordship's faithful servants.

A. C. Cantaur. Shaftesbury. J. London. J. Gloucester and Bristol. J. Manchester. F. Leveson-Gower. Arthur Otway. Jas. Martineau. Samuel Morley. M. Biddulph. B. Jowett. H. D. M. Spence. Charles Magniac W. J. R. Cotton. Jas. Clarke Lawrence. John Tyndall. Matthew Arnold. F. A. Inderwick. Henry Edward, Cardinal Manning.

Scarsdale. Mount-Temple. J. F. Oxon. Edmond Fitzmaurice. Elcho. Donald Currie. Henry Richard. W. St. John Brodrick. J. J. Stewart Perowne. F. W. Farrar. W. Page Roberts. J. G. Hubbard. W. Lawrence. Erasmus Wilson. Charles Darwin. A. M'Arthur. C. M'Laren. John Lubbock. H. R. Haweis.